Hey guys, as you know iOS 9 came out yesterday and I did this video showing off many of the new features including lots of hidden gems (features that Apple didn’t show us): In the video I show how the NEW iCloud Drive app works and the number one question I’m getting today from users [...]Read Full Article →

I like knowing what the current temperature is outside. Sure I could go to a website and look or even look in the Notification Center. However, what if there was a way to check at a glance without even taking your hands off your keyboard/mouse or leaving the current application you’re in. There is! Weather [...]Read Full Article →

I get this question all the time when I release a video tutorial or app review where I feature an iPhone or iPad or both. People want to know what technology I’m using to display my iPad or iPhone on my Mac. Originally I only had one way of doing it with Reflector. [...]Read Full Article →

That’s my brand new Late 2014 MacBook Pro above and on December 22nd at around 8:30PM I got a spinning beach ball cursor. It happens sometimes. However, it seemed that more than just the current app was having issues so I did a force reboot and that pretty blue display you see above is [...]Read Full Article →

One of the things that Apple TV has been used for a lot is to mirror the display of a late model Mac or iOS Device. I was actually curious about the Chromecast when it came out, so I ordered one. The idea behind it was that once you connected it to your [...]Read Full Article →

I’m a fan of assigning ringtones to my contacts. However, this task is one that until now always had to be done on the iPhone itself. To make matters worse Apple buried the Ringtone assignment under the Edit button instead it being a pop-up menu like it used to be (in iOS 5 or 6). [...]Read Full Article →

It’s hard to believe that we’re on the 11th major version of Mac OS X, but we’re here. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite has been released and like its predecessor, it’s a FREE download if you have a compatible Mac. Also just like the last few versions of Mac OS X, Yosemite is more evolutionary [...]Read Full Article →

Now that iOS has OTA (over the air) updates we’ve become spoiled. Each time a new system update comes out we can just tap the update button without having to plug in our iDevices into our computers. However, when a major iOS update comes out like iOS 8, it’s a lot larger than a dot [...]Read Full Article →

Everybody gets 5GB of FREE iCloud storage just by creating an account. For most people this is plenty of space for the few documents and applications they use that sync to iCloud as well as for backing up an iOS device such as an iPhone. However, if you have LOTS of images and other data [...]Read Full Article →

I get a new work MacBook Pro every couple of years. My last one was the MacBook Pro Mid 2012 model and I just got the current MacBook Pro Mid 2014 model. Apple makes it very easy to upgrade from one Mac to another via the Migration Assistant. The great thing about the [...]Read Full Article →

I’ve enjoyed Shazam on my iPhone for years. Shazam is an iOS app that allows you to identify/tag music (and now TV shows) that is playing around you. You hear a song playing on the radio, in a restaurant, at an event, etc, and you say yourself “I like that song. I wonder what’s it [...]Read Full Article →

I remember the days when Apple used to name their Macs with very specific names. This way you knew exactly what you had. If you had a Mac LC. You knew you had an LC. If you had a IIci or IIsi, you knew what you had. Those days are long gone and to keep [...]Read Full Article →

Actually I wrote a post a year ago called “Why I recommend iCloud backup to iPhone users”. Not much has changed since then. I still run into people all the time that have a mishap with their iPhone or iPad such as water damage, it gets lost or stollen or for some other reason they [...]Read Full Article →

If the saying that “A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind” is true, then I must have the healthiest purest mind on the planet. My desk is rarely ever “clean.” When I’m working at my desk I’m working on a MacBook Pro connected to a Wacom Cintiq 24 HD display/tablet. I [...]Read Full Article →

I love all the services available in iOS 7 for my iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. However, left unmanaged means you’ll be making more trips to the charger. Your iPhone and iPad are very location aware, but this can be a drain on your battery and while I usually have most of these services on, [...]Read Full Article →

My buddy Bruce forwarded me the message below and asked if I thought it was a phishing scam? For those of you who are unaware of the term “phishing scam”, what it means is that someone sends you an email that appears to be a legitimate email from a company or organization that you’re doing [...]Read Full Article →

I love 1Password and couldn’t imagine life without it. I use it everyday, throughout the day both on my Macs and on my iOS devices. Although I think I’m “pretty good” when it comes to my passwords, it’s easy to become complacent about security. After for the most part I let 1Password generate secure passwords [...]Read Full Article →

After yesterday’s great presentation by Fahad Ansari from Code42 on CrashPlan.com I learned a few tips on configuring my settings, but most importantly I learned that they never delete your files even if you do. Well I wanted to test that theory. Months ago I moved some pictures out a folder (“Auto Imported [...]Read Full Article →

Making the switch to iPhone 5 (then iPhone 5s) and iPad Air meant replacing all my 30 pin cables with Lightning cables. The problem is that Apple only makes two Lightning cables one 1m ($19) and the other one 2m ($29). They do make a relatively expensive 30 pin to Lightning Adapter ($29), but I’d [...]Read Full Article →